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On the 1st of January 2024, everyone was ushering in the new year and in celebration many people displayed fireworks.
Unfortunately for Angella, her neighbour’s fireworks landed in her garden and burnt down her crops. Can Angella sue her neighbour for the destruction of her crops?
WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?
The law states that where there is a dangerous non-natural use of land and that thing escapes from your land to another person’s land and causes damage, then the person in charge of that dangerous thing is responsible for the damage caused to the other and must compensate them.
It is important to note that, if you bring something onto your land, then you must take the utmost care of that the said thing does not escape and cause any harm to your neighbours. Where you fail to control that dangerous thing, then you take responsibility of any damage that it causes.
Angella therefore can sue her neighbour for damage to property as result of the neighbour’s negligence and failure to control the fireworks that she had brought on her land.
Sourcd: BarefootLawyers
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